Christie “is no longer alone on an island surrounded by Tea Party activists,” said Julian Zelizer, a political history professor at Princeton Unive...

In Corruption in America, Teachout recounts many of these struggles, making her book in part a greatest hits of court cases and laws dealing with b...

The problem with our campaign finance system is not that elections cost too much money. The problem is that we have a campaign system dominated by ...

The most important factor is that when it comes to national security, fear usually triumphs over almost everything else.

Audie Cornish talks to Australian terrorism expert David Kilcullen about the relationship between the Australian government and Muslim communities.

“Obviously the president is working very hard right now to avoid Democrats splintering,” said Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.

“It’s going to happen more frequently in the coming year because he’s taking positions aimed at Iowa (caucus goers) or South Carolina (primary vote...

As presidential historian Julian Zelizer said, paid speeches by former presidents are "another version of the revolving door between Capitol Hill a...

Fellow Hao Wu is a documentary filmmaker whose projects explore the complexities of modern China. In The Road to Fame, he tells the story of the go...

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The role of scientific literacy in the nuclear negotiations with India manifested itself in three distinct manners: the science that directly infor...

Washington is obsessed with the question of whether government can do anything anymore. With the lame duck session of Congress mired in confrontati...

Tax experts generally think some breaks that have been perpetually extended should be made permanent (the ones that make decent policy sense, like ...

Julian Zelizer talked by remote video from New York City about President Obama’s use of executive action since the 2014 election. He talked about t...

Which Julian Zelizer, political historian at Princeton University, thinks provided a murky picture of the damage a shutdown could do. "The last rou...

"After the elections, all these discussions about this lameduck presidency actually offered a little space for him to show that's not the case," sa...

Christie's Canadian junket is a balancing act, says Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian and professor of public policy at Princeton University...

Julian Zelizer,who teaches history and public affairs at Princeton University, said the trip also allows Christie to show himself as a statesman, a...

A congressional staffer is out of a job - after taking to Facebook to criticize the president's daughters - Princeton's Julian Zelizer on WTOP

Should this plan, or something similar that is acceptable to Democrats, actually beat the budget deadline of Dec. 11 and be signed by the president...

Watching the GOP discussion on immigration can give an idea of how hard Republicans might push in other areas, says Julian Zelizer, a professor at ...

McCain has regained some of his footing by becoming the voice of the neoconservative Republicans, a group that many wrote off as a lost voice after...